Taking to Twitter, Poonawalla also lauded Modi's vision on providing vaccines to the global community at the UN General Assembly.
This comes after Poonawalla had asked the government on Twitter if they had ₹ 80,000 crore to buy and distribute the vaccine to everyone in India.
Serum Institute is the world's largest manufacturer of vaccines by volume and which is conducting trials of COVID-19 vaccine candidates ahead of mass production.